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GPU prices haven't stopped climbing for 3 weeks straight across the EU, here's the data

hey again! I run a EU PC hardware price tracker PriceSquirrel, 25+ stores across 9 countries, and wanted to check: are GPU prices actually rising, or does it just feel that way? To make this defensibl

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If Astra was AGI or the dawning of the Singularity would 9 execs have just quit OpenAI? Would Nvidia have just dialed back its commitments t…

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If Astra was AGI or the dawning of the Singularity would 9 execs have just quit OpenAI? Would Nvidia have just dialed back its commitments to OpenAI? Of course not. The bullshit about OpenAI far excee

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15 Aug 2026

Sources: Nvidia in talks to invest up to $3B in SoftBank-backed data center developer SB Energy that aims to IPO soon and is behind a huge OpenAI campus in Ohio (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Nvidia in talks to invest up to 3B in SoftBank-backed data center developer SB Energy that aims to IPO soon and is behind a huge OpenAI campus in Ohio — Nvidia is in talks to

15 Aug 2026

Balanced Adaptive Prototype Selection for Scalable TabPFN Inference on Large-Scale Tabular Data

arXiv:2608.12989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained tabular foundation models have demonstrated strong predictive capability; however, their application to large-scale datasets remains constrai

Enhancing Virtual Agents through SLMs and Edge-Computing: An Exploratory Evaluation of Think and Memory Processes

arXiv:2608.13420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied intelligent virtual agents are expected to operate as persistent, adaptive, and context-aware entities within complex virtual and Metaverse wor

NInfer day0 support for Qwen3.8 27b: ~200 tok/s generation, with tons of engine improvments

Qwen3.8-27B is finally here, and NInfer already has Day-0 support! Weights: https://huggingface.co/neroued/Qwen3.8-27B-NInfer Just update to the latest source and give it a try. On a single RTX 5090,

OpenRC: An Open-Source Robotic Colonoscopy Framework for Multimodal Data Acquisition and Autonomy Research

arXiv:2604.03781v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Colorectal cancer screening critically depends on colonoscopy, yet existing platforms offer limited support for systematically studying the coupled

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Qwen3.8-Max is live on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference. Launching side by side with DigitalOcean as our Day 0 launch partner. Big model. S…

Qwen3.8-Max is live on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference. Launching side by side with DigitalOcean as our Day 0 launch partner. Big model. Smooth sailing. Now on DigitalOcean.🌊🏄‍♀️ @digitalocean Now a

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Reduced Matrix Multiplication: Input-Adaptive Matrix-Product Reduction for LLM Inference

arXiv:2608.13426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer-based language models achieve strong performance but incur substantial inference cost due to repeated high-dimensional matrix multiplicati

Sources: Nvidia has reworked a deal to finance an OpenAI Ohio data center campus so that it would initially guarantee only half of its planned $250B backstop (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia has reworked a deal to finance an OpenAI Ohio data center campus so that it would initially guarantee only half of its planned $250B backstop — Un

10,000 @nvidia B300 GPUs. India's largest AI Factory. Together AI and @larsentoubro are building the country's biggest GPU cluster, backing …

10,000 @nvidia B300 GPUs. India's largest AI Factory. Together AI and @larsentoubro are building the country's biggest GPU cluster, backing open-source inference, fine-tuning, and training at scale fo

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Achieving Near-Zero-Overhead Multi-Model Hierarchical Classification in Real-Time Detection Pipelines

arXiv:2608.11770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Edge-deployed vision systems in target recognition, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and drone domains require hierarchical inference pipelines where

Class Is in Session: GeForce NOW Levels Up Linux, Chromebooks and More

GeForce NOW is giving cloud gaming an extra-credit upgrade just in time for back-to-school season. The native Linux app for GeForce NOW is officially out of beta. GeForce NOW is also delivering new cl

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Cutting AI Datacenter Energy with Reinforcement Learning: Measured Power Control of LLM Training from One GPU to the Fleet

arXiv:2608.11226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement-learning post-training dominates modern language-model development, yet its power behavior on GPU hardware has not been characterized, and

FLARE++: Low-rank attention with dynamic attention routing

arXiv:2608.11519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full self-attention is a strong token mixer for PDE surrogates on irregular domains, but its quadratic cost limits its use on high-resolution problems.

Hardware-Aware Deployment of Joint SAR Compression and Despeckling on FPGA

arXiv:2608.11271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Next-generation Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) missions will generate data far faster than they can downlink, making onboard data reduction essential

Ready Cohorts: Bounding GPU Opportunity and Avoiding Host Round Trips in LLM-Agent Control

arXiv:2608.12123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-agent services repeatedly execute small deterministic transitions between model and tool calls: route an outcome, update state, and emit the next

The Coachella of robotics, world models, and physical AI is Runway’s SF Summit, coming to the Bay Area on September 30. Speaker lineup: @Qua…

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The Coachella of robotics, world models, and physical AI is Runway’s SF Summit, coming to the Bay Area on September 30. Speaker lineup: @QuanVng from @physical_int, @liu_mingyu from @nvidia, @robertni

This is so much bigger than one company, and orders of magnitude more dangerous to the economy and investors than Enron. Nvidia’s AI push ha…

This is so much bigger than one company, and orders of magnitude more dangerous to the economy and investors than Enron. Nvidia’s AI push has echoes of Enron, says Big Short investor https://www.teleg

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Wealth managers are cutting fees and hiring staff in Silicon Valley to win over OpenAI and Anthropic workers before IPOs mint a new class of millionaires (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Wealth managers are cutting fees and hiring staff in Silicon Valley to win over OpenAI and Anthropic workers before IPOs mint a new class of millionaires — The rise of equity-rich tec

worldproof: diagnosing where world-model predictions break and a measurement of when pixel metrics stop being able to rank models at all [P]

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I've been building an open-source tool for diagnosing world models, the kind that predict future frames from a starting context and a sequence of actions. It compares a rollout against ground truth an

CARB: A Characterization-Guided Framework for CNN Inference Cost Prediction and Deployment Screening

arXiv:2608.10506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate pre-deployment estimation of CNN inference cost--energy, latency, and peak memory--is increasingly critical as models are deployed on resourc

EvoMem: Memory-Augmented Evolution for Code Optimization

arXiv:2608.10795v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Successful mutation strategies in evolutionary code search may contain reusable knowledge that is useful beyond a single run, and in some cases may tran

Ex-Omni-2D: Expressive Omni-Modal Dialogue Models with Native Visual Presence

arXiv:2608.10720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omni-modal dialogue models can understand multimodal inputs and synthesize spoken replies, yet their responses remain visually disembodied. We introduce

From Detection to Understanding: TAR and TAR-Bench for Multi-Task Traffic Anomaly Reasoning

arXiv:2608.10317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present TAR (Traffic Anomaly Reasoning) and TAR-Bench datasets, resources for training and evaluating video-language models beyond anomaly detection.

Hand-Written PTX Tensor-Core GEMM Kernels: A Multi-Precision Study on NVIDIA L4

arXiv:2608.10103v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-performance Tensor Core kernels rely on a low-level PTX pipeline built from asynchronous data movement with cp.async, warp-level matrix loads wit

How to Choose Full-Stack Observability for NVIDIA AI Factories

A full‑stack observability framework for NVIDIA AI factories links telemetry from compute, networking, storage, orchestration and application layers using specialized tools (DCGM, NVSM, UFM, NetQ, NMX

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HyWA: Architecture-Preserving Personalized Voice Activity Detection for Full-Duplex Voice Assistants

arXiv:2510.12947v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Voice activity detection (VAD) serves as an early gate in voice-assistant pipelines for smart devices. Because conventional VADs respond to sp

IBM inks $240M infrastructure deal with AI-optimized cloud operator Together AI

IBM Corp. will provide infrastructure to artificial intelligence startup Together AI Inc. as part of a 240 million deal announced today. The partnership comes a few weeks after the latter company rais

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Is the future of AI selling hardware for Open Source/Models?

I’m not super knowledgeable of the entire AI industry, but as we see this industry grow and the Cold War that is happening between the US and China on AI development, I can’t help but notice what US c

Lambda prices $926 million senior secured term loan B facility, the first investment-grade-rated term loan B financing by a private neocloud

First private neocloud to execute an investment-grade-rated financing in the term loan B market, further broadening the investor base for AI infrastructure financing. Facility supports the purchase an

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Neuroevolution Arena: Nested Ecological Evaluation of Update-and-Inheritance Regimes across Neural Architectures

arXiv:2608.10323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Competitive artificial-life systems can rank trained controllers differently under training and ecological evaluation. We present Neuroevolution Arena,

NVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class

We announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capit

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Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, for about $6B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, for about 6B — Anthropic PBC is in talks to buy the artificial intelligence

TideRL: Boosting Agentic RL Goodput with Readiness-Aware Scheduling

arXiv:2608.10402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models is moving toward multi-turn agentic workloads, where rollout tasks repeatedly pause for external e

Tiered KV cache for large LLMs on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with Curvine

Running large language model inference at scale forces a KV cache trade-off: oversized GPU instances or slow time-to-first-token. This post builds a tiered KV cache on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod that e

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TransitReID: Transit OD Data Collection with Occlusion-Resistant Dynamic Passenger Re-Identification

arXiv:2504.11500v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transit Origin-Destination (OD) data are fundamental for optimizing public transit services, yet current collection methods, such as manual su

What do you guys do for GPU Kernels?

I'm trying to figure out GPU Kernel optimization on older hardware like SM80(ampere) . Is there tools you guys use? Or frameworks? Im waiting for this framework https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/com

Aero Realtime: Fully Aligned Input-Output Streams for Low-Latency Streaming Multimodal Generation

arXiv:2608.08469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing streaming multimodal models process observations incrementally but still follow a turn-based prefill-then-decode pattern, making them non-duple

AraSSM: A bidirectional state-space encoder for Arabic masked language modeling

arXiv:2608.08256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained Transformer encoders such as AraBERT, MARBERT, and CAMeLBERT have become the standard backbone for Arabic natural language understanding, but

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Beyond Isotropic Assumptions: Continuity-Constrained Segmentation and GPU Morphometry for Nanoscale GBM Analysis

arXiv:2608.07575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Confocal microscopy of optically cleared and swelled tissue resolves complex biological structures in 3D, but such acquisitions are highly anisotropic:

Big Tech's AI boom echoes the 1870s railroad buildout, and Nvidia shifting risk to institutional capital may expose investors if AI revenues fail to materialize (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Big Tech's AI boom echoes the 1870s railroad buildout, and Nvidia shifting risk to institutional capital may expose investors if AI revenues fail to materialize — On Januar

Depth-adaptive Inference of Looped Language Models via Continuous Depth Batching

arXiv:2608.09444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A main promise of looped language models (LMs) is depth-adaptive inference. By iterating a block of shared layers a variable number of times, the mode

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Design Space of Self--Consistent Electrostatic Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials

arXiv:2603.14700v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become widely used tools in atomistic simulations. For much of the history of this field,

Differentiate the Solver, Not the Equation: Reverse-Sweep Adjoints for Block Implicit Simulation

arXiv:2608.08559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differentiable simulation is a key component in learning, control, and inverse problems, where gradients through nonlinear implicit solvers are requir

EasyBalance: Cross-Layer Load Balancing in Distributed MoE Inference

arXiv:2608.07964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Load Balancing has emerged as a critical problem in expert-parallel distributed inference of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. As routing distributions

Eco-SoC: A Sustainable VLSI Architecture for Energy-Proportional Artificial Intelligence

arXiv:2608.08761v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In an era defined by escalating climate change and the pervasive deployment of edge intelligence, the environmental cost of semiconductor manufacturin

ERF-GS: Reconstructing Fast Motion from Disjoint Event-RGB Viewpoints

arXiv:2608.08531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning-driven representations such as neural radiance fields (NeRFs) and 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) have revolutionized the field of dynamic 3D